A/N Thank you everyone for reviewing! You guys inspired me to write another part to this. Sheldon may be a little OC and sorry there is so much dialogue. But I hope you all like it! Oh it's a little AU after 3x01.
Part Two
"Dude, where's Sheldon?" asked Raj the moment him and Howard walked through Sheldon and Leonard's apartment door. It was weird to not see the tall man sitting in His Spot.
"Yea," said Howard coming up behind him in the doorway. "Shouldn't he be giving us a lecture about what fireworks are made of or something?"
He took a seat at the far right of the couch, arms behind his head and feet now propped up on the coffee table. While Sheldon's away…
"That's what I thought," Leonard said, from his spot in the armchair as he turned off the TV to focus more on his two friends. "But he left and didn't tell me where he was going."
"When did he leave?" asked Raj from the kitchen after getting a bottle of water out of the fridge
He was the only one of the three who seemed like they cared about Sheldon. It had been this way since the Arctic Incident. Sheldon still smarted and twitched when the word Arctic was ever spoken even though it had been over a year since the incident.
Even though he had forgiven the guys, but Raj knew that Sheldon still hurt from the betrayal. Especially with Leonard, his best friend.
"Oh, about fifteen minutes ago." Leonard answered Raj's question after checking his watch.
"Well, he's still in the building," Howard said with a smirk. "I was hitting on this hot babe about twenty minutes ago outside the building and I didn't see him leave."
Leonard's face scrunched up. "What do you mean? The only other place he would be if he isn't here is with Penny…"
"Penny, huh?" Howard's eyebrows waggled.
"Shut-up, Howard. He's probably over there asking her to do something ridiculous for him." He stood up. "I'm going to make him leave her alone."
"Plus it gives you a chance to speak to Penny."
Leonard smiled as he reached the door. "That too."
If any one had told her that she would be on her apartment's roof, laying on a blanket as Sheldon, yes Sheldon Lee Cooper, kissed her, she would laughed in their face. It wasn't that she couldn't imagine herself kissing him(she was doing that quite a lot actually), but she couldn't imagine him kissing her.
They were just gently kissing, no full out make-out seen here. Not now anyway, she didn't want to scare him away. But she had to know why the sudden change. There were days were he didn't even seem to like her, let alone have feelings for her.
She pulled away and looked at him. He looked unsure.
"Did I do something wrong? I've been researching kissing for awhile now."
She was slightly taken aback. How long had he been planning this? And who did research on kissing?
Obviously Sheldon Cooper, PhD.
"No, sweetie, you were perfect. I just want to know what changed?"
"What do you mean, Penny?"
"When did you start to have feelings for me?"
"Since always," he said matter of fact.
"Oh."
Sheldon shifted until he was sitting up and looking straight forward and not at her. "But I did not realize these feelings until I was in the Arctic." He winced. "I didn't realize how much a part of my life you were and how much you meant to me until I couldn't see you everyday."
"Aw." She smiled and took his hand. That was probably the sweetest thing anyone had ever said to her.
"But I knew how Leonard felt about you and I wasn't sure how you felt about him or about me." he looked at their hands and then at her. "I thought that once we came back from the Artic you and Leonard would change your relationship paradigm, but you didn't." His eyes searched her eyes questioningly.
"I don't know what happened. When you guys left I missed him a lot and couldn't wait for him to come back. But when he did I just didn't feel anything towards him and then I found out what him and the others did to you and I…"
"You what?"
"When I saw you curled up on your bed I just wanted to comfort you, to tell you everything was going to be okay and I wanted to kiss you."
"You did?"
"It came as a shock to me and I ended up just sitting there talking to you about Valerie, hoping to get my mind off it. I didn't know how you would react if I just planted one on you, y'know?"
He looked up at the sky and watched the fireworks for a moment. "You know it was when you sat there, talking to me, that I finally figured out the full extent of my feelings for you."
She joined him in watching the fireworks. "How come you didn't do anything about it? You usually don't keep quiet about things." She laughed a little.
"Leonard."
"Oh."
"I knew of his infatuation with you and I decided I would give him a year to try and change his relationship with you." He turned to her and placed a hand on her cheek and gazed in her eyes. "That year is up." And then he was kissing her again.
"Well he's not there and neither is Penny," said Leonard coming back to his apartment slightly disappointed.
"Penny is probably out with some friends or something. Maybe he somehow snuck by us and he's at the comic store." said Howard from his position on the couch, feet still propped on the table.
"Or maybe he's at the University, working." suggested Raj. He had been doing that a lot, especially late at night, since the Arctic.
"Alright, Howard you look at the comic bookstore and I'll look at the University. Raj maybe you should look around here in case he's bothering any of the other tenants."
"Gotcha." And then they went their separate ways.
No way! Was that Sheldon, Sheldon, kissing Penny?
Raj felt like an intruder as he stood there watching the physicist and the aspiring actress kiss. He knew deep down that they were meant to be together. He was a romantic at heart and always shipped the Shenny. Leonard was crazy for her, he knew, but it was only for her looks. Once a new blonde had moved in upstairs he had dropped Penny and immediately went for Alicia. If he really loved Penny that would have not happened.
He then watched as they broke apart and as Penny smiled at Sheldon. They had still not noticed that he was there and he wanted to keep it that way.
He could just barely make out what Penny was saying.
"Maybe we should actually some fireworks, sweetie."
He smiled back, a real smile. "Alright."
As they laid back down Sheldon pulled her close and she rested her head on his chest. Raj knew he should probably leave but before he did he got out his phone and sent a quick text.
Sheldon felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and he took it out. Maybe the guys were finally worried about him.
"Who is it?" said Penny looking up at him.
He was staring at the screen, confused. "It's from Raj, it says 'Don't worry, I won't tell Leonard' with a smile face."
"What?"
Sheldon looked over at the door leading to the rest of the apartment building just as it closed shut.
A/N My hope is to one day do a multi fic for Sheldon/Penny but after reading all those AMAZING stories that are on this site I don't think mine would compare! But I have an idea and I have tentatively started writing it so maybe one day I will be brave enough to put in here. I'll have to do more research on the characters and if that means watching many episodes of TBBT well there's no sacrifice there! :)
